aa_getkey(3)

aa_getkey(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Library Functions Manual, and it's literally the function that hands you the next key someone pressed. group-chat energy: your keyboard is screaming into the void, and aa_getkey is the one who actually reads the messages. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

aa_getkey — return next keypress event from queue. that's it. that's the whole job. she's focused. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <aalib.h>

int aa_getkey
(
     aa_context *c,
     int wait
);

🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• aa_context *c — the AA-lib context you wanna operate on. this is your little universe, bestie, hand it over. 🫶
• int wait — set it to 1 if you wish to wait for the event even when the queue is empty. like, you're literally willing to sit there and wait for a text back. no shame. 🙈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Return next keypress event from queue.

that's the vibe. she looks at the queue, she pulls out the next keypress, she hands it to you. main character behavior fr fr. 👑

⭐ RETURNS ⭐

Next keypress event from queue — and here's the tea: values lower than 256 are used to report ascii values of pressed keys, and higher values are used to represent some special keys like arrows. 🌈

See the AA-lib texinfo documentation for more details, bestie. iykyk. 📖

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

the whole extended friend group, no cap:

save_d(3), mem_d(3), aa_help(3), aa_formats(3), aa_fonts(3), aa_dithernames(3), aa_drivers(3), aa_kbddrivers(3), aa_mousedrivers(3), aa_kbdrecommended(3), aa_mouserecommended(3), aa_displayrecommended(3), aa_defparams(3), aa_defrenderparams(3), aa_scrwidth(3), aa_scrheight(3), aa_mmwidth(3), aa_mmheight(3), aa_imgwidth(3), aa_imgheight(3), aa_image(3), aa_text(3), aa_attrs(3), aa_currentfont(3), aa_autoinit(3), aa_autoinitkbd(3), aa_autoinitmouse(3), aa_recommendhi(3), aa_recommendlow(3), aa_init(3), aa_initkbd(3), aa_initmouse(3), aa_close(3), aa_uninitkbd(3), aa_uninitmouse(3), aa_fastrender(3), aa_render(3), aa_puts(3), aa_printf(3), aa_gotoxy(3), aa_hidecursor(3), aa_showcursor(3), aa_getmouse(3), aa_hidemouse(3), aa_showmouse(3), aa_registerfont(3), aa_setsupported(3), aa_setfont(3), aa_getevent(3), aa_resize(3), aa_resizehandler(3), aa_parseoptions(3), aa_edit(3), aa_createedit(3), aa_editkey(3), aa_putpixel(3), aa_recommendhikbd(3), aa_recommendlowkbd(3), aa_recommendhimouse(3), aa_recommendlowmouse(3), aa_recommendhidisplay(3), aa_recommendlowdisplay(3)

and that's the page, gorgeous. this one was generated by c2man aalib.h, dated 8 September 1999 — yeah, she's vintage, she's iconic, she's been serving since the nineties, and the manual page she's signing off as is aa_getkey(3). periodt. 💖✨